Lion Pale Double Bock | Měšťanský pivovar Havlíčkův Brod

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I see alot of brews from this Czech brewer here in Greensboro,pours a deep rich golden with thin head that is gone pretty quickly.I pick up some iron notes as well as some sweetness in the aroma with some alcohol as it warms a little.Taste is malt dominated with those iron notes even more pronounced even a little saltiness that hits the tongue in the finish.Not a real complex beer for the style but sturdy and solid.

Appearance: Bright and clean with a golden yellow hue, dense and frothy head floats on top.

Smell: Ripe granny smith apple in the nose, lots of grain in the aroma also.

Taste: Smooth with a light to medium body, grain dominates the taste buds for a bit. Then a mild bitting hop bitterness riding the crisp carbonation gives off an spicy herbal flavor that is everlasting. On the dryish side with a grainy aftertaste. The apple-like fruitiness gets lost within the hop character.

Notes: Beef up the malt a liitle and it might just be a good bock ... pale it is double bock it is not. Hoppy and dry, it makes for a great thirst quenching hot wheather beer. 5.15 percent abv.

Poured into a pilsner glass this was the expected straw yellow with a fluffy head which didn't last long and very active carbonation rushing to the surface. Nose was not really very good sort of musty and leatherish but it was actually a somewhat offensive odor to me. Tasted better than it smelled but not by a whole lot, biscuity in the beginning but quickly dominated by hops which pucker the lips and act as more of a spicy feeling in the mouth rather than an actual taste. Overall I wouldn't buy this again, For some reason the label said this was a "pale double bock" which it certainly is not. Basically an average or slightly sub-par pilsner. This one is bound for the drain.

A- This beer pours a dark orange body with a strong carbonation and a thick rocky head of sticky white foam.

S- The slight note of sweetness leads to some toffee character with a lagered smoothness and a floral herbal hop note in the finish. As this beer opens there is a flint smell and some fresh sweet wort notes.

T- The nice honey malt sweetness has some pils malt flavor that finishes with a cider flavor and a bitter hop bite that grows in the finish.

M- The light mouthfeel has a gentle fizz with no alcohol heat noticed.

O- Nice rich malt that is sweet but has a lagered quality to it and bitterness of the hops helps cut that sweetness. As it warms the sweetness tends to be a bit too strong.

Nice crisp beer but not something I'd spend a lot of time seeking out.

Poured into tall pilsner glass, 4 finger craggy white head which takes a good bit to dissipate and leaves some nice lacing all the way down the glass. Medium level of carbonation, sparkly. Drinkability is high, body and mouthfeel a bit lighter than I'd like.

Tastes and smells like fresh apples and pears. Decent enough hop bitterness, malt presence really needs to be upped on this beer. If you ask me, this beer would be an easy 3.5+ if it had some decent malty backbone to balance out the yeast and hops. Also has a hard to identify spicy aroma, maybe some clove... on initial pour I found some very interesting stuff in the nose but I can't identify exactly what it is. Almost struck me as a sweaty aroma, but not in a particularly unpleasant way. Curious.

IMO, Pale Double Bock means Maibock; clearly this is not a Doppelbock or a Maibock. Hell, it is not even a bock! The neck label says it won an award as a Bohemian Style Pilsner. WTF, it is all so confusing.

Golden-coppery in hue, which is quite attractive; slightly off-white head, at the apex the foam was two fingers tall. Head retention was decent, the bubbles slowly faded to a soapy cap. There was no subsequent lacing. Overall, this is adequate looking beer.

The nose is earthy with lots of grass and hay. It seems spicy at the back. Airy empty fairly boring, I get hints of grain. So a double bock beer fails to generate pleasant malty aromas? How pathetic. The more I smell this beer the hotter the nose gets, slightly caramely but not in a malty good way. I dont know what is going on. The nose is not offensive but it is peculiar and not inviting.

The palate is grainy with nail polish remover infused with some caramel notes. I also detect cloying sweetness with an overabundance of grass/hay. As a Pilsner this beer is dismal. Okay, in reality this beer is just so damn odd. I dont like it, regardless of style. It is just so sweet/hot and grassy and I dont care for the overall direction. I mean, lack of direction. Messy. I dont get any joy drinking this, as such, what is the point.

Medium/medium-light in body, the carbonation is way too low for the style, the mouthfeel is sluggish. Yuck.

Not likable. Not drinkable. Not again. What a jumble of flavors. I cant finish my bottle. Thank you Daniel for the bottle, even though it sucks! Skip it, folks.

Pours a pale yellow-gold with smallish white head, strong carbonation, and decent lace. Smells very grainy. Sweet and metallic with a touch of hop bitterness. Simplistic, if clean and pleasant, flavor profile. Sweet graininess dominates and is finished with a drying hop bitterness. Medium-weight for a pilsener. Perhaps a bit too carbonated and gassy for my taste.

Refreshing and easy-to-drink if you're in the mood for an uncomplicated beer. Not much character to remember it by, however.

Double-bock labeling is double-marketing-bull. This is more of a Bohemian-style pilsener in my opinion.

When this beer was poured, it had a small white head with fine sized bubbles. The body of this beer was carbonated and the hue was pale yellow. The nose was malty and fruity and the flavor was bitter. In my opinion, there is nothing to write home about with this particular beer.

Pours a clear copper, rust color with a bright white head, decent retention and lacing, lots of bubbles streaming up the middle. Not getting much on the aroma, must be an old bottle. The only aroma I'm picking up are the sweet malts and grains. Lots of malts, grains, hay, and grassy notes, subtle taste of hop spice, finish has a strange lingering note of cardboard and oxidation, not very good. Light bodied with a dry finish and highly carbonated.

It has a lot of oxidation in the finish and it really affects the overall flavor and I think minus the oxidation this would taste a lot better. The label says Pale Double Bock but it does tastes like a bock beer at all, more like a pale lager.

A: The beer is clear dark yellow in color and has a lots of fine particulates floating in suspension along with a slight amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a half finger high white head that died down, leaving some lacing on the surface and a collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Light aromas of apples, corn, grainy malts, and herbal hops are present in the nose.
T: The taste generally follows the smell, except that the herbal hops seem to be a bit stronger and mask any traces of sweetness that one might have expected from the corn. The herbal flavors aren't overly strong, but linger into the finish, where they are most noticeable.
M: It feels medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation. The suspended particulates don't make the mouthfeel seem to be "rough", but they definitely restrict it from feeling clean.
O: This beer has a good balance between the malts and hops, but both the aromas and flavors are quite muted.

Pours orangeish golden with a thin, but creamy and lasting, off-white head.

The smell is grainy, herbal, a bit of apple and sulfur.

The taste is herbal/Continental-type hops (Saaz?) with a yeasty breadiness and something chemicalish/sulfur-like. An apple-like fruitiness seems out of place, and brings this one down. Sweetness restrained by a bitterness.

Why does it claim to be a Pale Double Bock? (A bit stronger than there pils Rebel?) A mediocre-ish pilsner that has too many little flaws/detractors if you ask me. Becomes a bit aspirin-like as it progresses, and the apple-thing didn't do anything for it. Overall- it's okay, I suppose, as there's enough to it to keep it from the "bad" side (helped by very good appearance and nice enough aroma - everything else meiocre), but wouldn't seek to have again.

Not all Czech beers (at least imports) are great...This was a bit of a let down for me. It actually tasted a bit skunky to me..I've never seen this beer in the Czech Republic...maybe this is why...Not a bad beer but certainly not up to Czech standards

Poured a transparent yellow gold with a finely carbonated white frothy head and sinks down into Belgian lace within a minute or two. Carbonation bubbles stream up from the bottom of the glass. Smell reminds me of a pilsner, with earthy herbal noble hops. Taste is thicker, richer, fuller, and immediately reminds you that this is not a pilsner at all. Not as malty as many bocks that I've had, this one is more akin to a pils on a bodybuilding plan. Malt tones are light, smooth, and finish with almost a honey-like sweetness in the finish. The hops get in the way a bit more than anything else. Not bad, just different.

500ml from Capital Market,Salem. Nice golden almost orange coloured beer with a huge frothy white head. Very malty aromas, bready, some caramel. Taste is also very malty..very bock like. Slightly toasted carmel, with hints of grain and honey. Very nice on the tongue, liked the smooth feel of this one. Overall i liked this one but really dispute as to wether ti is a Bohemian Pilsner. I believe it IS a pale Bock or even a Euro strong lager..it certainlly seemed way over the 5.1% on here.

I was a bit surprised at the paleness of this doppelbock. I know that the style can be fairly pale, but this is the first one that I've had that wasn't to lagers what stouts are to ales. A nice maltiness keeps this from being a total dissapointment, but I was expecting more after seeing the name.